Potstirrer Podcast

Several US Supreme Court rulings in June that have emboldened Donald Trump and the GOP, and have left Democrats reeling. In addition, US Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy is retiring, which means the Trump administration has another opening they can fill on the court. Jaye discusses these and related developments, seeks to place them into perspective. In the wake of these events, Jaye aims to provide messages of admonishment, motivation, and hope.

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Citations:

Crisp, Elizabeth. 2018. “Gov. John Bel Edwards Signs Law Restoring Felon Voting Rights After Five Years.” The Advocate. May 31. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_8f432008-6515-11e8-a42c-4f773f2862c5.html (July 1, 2018)

Gidda, Mirren. 2017. “Most Terrorists in the US are Right Wing, Not Muslim: Report.” Newsweek. June 22. http://www.newsweek.com/right-wing-extremism-islamist-terrorism-donald-trump-steve-bannon-628381 (July 1, 2018)

Kendall, Brent, and Jess Bravin. 2018. “Supreme Court Upholds Travel Ban.” The Wall Street Journal. June 26. https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-upholds-trump-travel-ban-1530022794 (July 1, 2018)

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1963. “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.” April 16. https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html (July 1, 2018)

Liptak, Adam. 2018. “Supreme Court Ruling Delivers a Sharp Blow to Labor Unions.” The New York Times. June 27. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-unions-organized-labor.html (July 1, 2018)

Liptak, Adam. 2018 “Supreme Court Upholds Ohio’s Purge of Voting Rolls.” The New York Times. June 11. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/us/politics/supreme-court-upholds-ohios-purge-of-voting-rolls.html (July 1, 2018)

Mashable Daily. “All the Times Trump Has Called for Violence at His Rallies.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIs2L2nUL-0

More Information:

Trump v. Hawaii: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/trump-v-hawaii-3/

Janus v. AFSCME: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/janus-v-american-federation-state-county-municipal-employees-council-31/

Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/husted-v-philip-randolph-institute/

State-by-State Felon Voting Rights: https://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=000286

Music:

Potstirrer Podcast Theme composed by Jon Biegen from Stranger Still http://strangerstillshow.com/

Castello Oak composed by Bird Creek

Ophelia's Blues composed by Audionautix Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://audionautix.com/

In today's episode, Jaye discusses recent news stories related to undocumented immigration and refugees from Latin America. Where are the 1500 missing migrant children that were being tracked by the federal government? How are children in the custody of US Customs being treated? And is there any moral or ethical issue with calling MS-13 gang members "animals?" Jaye delves into past events as she makes the case that when we dehumanize other people, it becomes all too easy to treat them inhumanely - or watch and do nothing.

CONTENT WARNING: This episode includes discussion of physical and sexual violence, and descriptions of oppressive behavior.

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Citations:

“ACLU Obtains Documents Showing Widespread Abuse of Child Immigrants in US Custody.” 2018. American Civil Liberties Union. May 22. https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-obtains-documents-showing-widespread-abuse-child-immigrants-us-custody (June 3, 2018)

“Bystanders.” “Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008207 (June 3, 2018)

Burke, Garnace. 2018. “Almost 1,500 Migrant Children Placed in Homes by the U.S. Government Went Missing Last Year.” Time. April 26. http://time.com/5256734/government-missing-migrant-children/ (June 3, 2018)

Darby, Luke. 2018. “Trump on Abused Immigrant Children: ‘They’re Not Innocent.’” GQ. May 24. https://www.gq.com/story/trump-on-immigrant-children (June 3, 2018)

Diamant, Jeff and Gregory A. Smith. 2018. “Religiously, Nonwhite Democrats are More Similar to Republicans Than to White Democrats.” Pew Research Center. May 23. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/23/religiously-nonwhite-democrats-are-more-similar-to-republicans-than-to-white-democrats/ (June 3, 2018)

“Documenting Numbers of Victims of the Holocaust and Nazi Persecution.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Holocaust Encyclopedia. https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10008193 (June 3, 2018)

Goebbels, Joseph. 1932. “We Are Voting for Hitler!” Trans. Randall Bytwerk. Calvin College. http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/angrif12.htm (June 3, 2018)

Gonzales, Richard. 2018. “ACLU Report: Detained Immigrant Children Subjected to Widespread Abuse by Officials.” National Public Radio. May 23. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/23/613907893/aclu-report-detained-immigrant-children-subjected-to-widespread-abuse-by-officia (June 3, 2018)

Hartig, Hannah. 2018. “Republicans Turn More Negative Toward Refugees as Number Admitted to US Plummets.” Pew Research Center. May 24. http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/05/24/republicans-turn-more-negative-toward-refugees-as-number-admitted-to-u-s-plummets/ (June 3, 2018)

Hitler, Adolf. 1937. “On National Socialism and World Relations.” Trans. Randall Bytwerk. Calvin College. http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hitler1.htm (June 3, 2018)

Jenkins, Aric. 2018. “Jeff Sessions: Parents and Children Illegally Crossing the Border Will Be Separated.“ Time. May 7. http://time.com/5268572/jeff-sessions-illegal-border-separated/ (June 3, 2018)

Martin, James. 2012. “Civil War Conscription Laws.” Library of Congress. November 15. https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/11/civil-war-conscription-laws/ (June 3, 2018)

Montini, EJ. 2018. “The Feds Lost – Yes, Lost – 1,475 Migrant Children.” USA Today. May 22. https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/ej-montini/2018/05/22/immigration-children-separate-families-lost-kirstjen-nielson/631627002/ (June 3, 2018)

Rizzo, Salvador. 2018. “Fact-Checking Immigration Spin on Separating Families and 1500 ‘Lost’ Children.” Chicago Daily Herald. May 30. http://www.dailyherald.com/news/20180530/fact-checking-immigration-spin-on-separating-families-and-1500-lost-children (June 3, 2018)

Vasquez, Tina. 2018. “By Painting Asylum Seekers as ‘Violent Animals,’ Trump Unlocked a School-to-Deportation Pipeline.” Rewire.News. May 24. https://rewire.news/article/2018/05/24/painting-asylum-seekers-violent-animals-trump-unlocked-school-deportation-pipeline/ (June 3, 2018)

Wagner, Steven. “Statement by Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate.” 2018. US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. April 26. https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Wagner%20Testimony.pdf (June 3, 2018)

“What You Need to Know About the Violent Animals of MS-13.” Whitehouse.gov. May 21. https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/need-know-violent-animals-ms-13/ (June 3, 2018)...

In the concluding episode of a two-part series, Jaye continues her discussion on the decline of the United States within the framework of her hometown, Detroit, Michigan. She discusses the conditions in Detroit prior to the 1967 Detroit riots that led to the riots and the decline of the city, including workplace discrimination, housing segregation, the destruction of tight-knit black communities by urban renewal, racial strife between white and black Detroiters, and tensions between police and the community. As Detroit is making its comeback, what lessons can Americans learn from Detroit that will help the US survive its "fifth quarter?"

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Citations:

Anderson, Elisha. 2017. "25 Years Ago, Malice Green Became the Face of Police Brutality in Detroit." Detroit Free Press. November 3. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/eight-mile-road (April 22, 2018)

"Coleman A. Young, 79, Mayor of Detroit and Political Symbol for Blacks, is Dead." 1997. The New York Times. November 30. https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/us/coleman-a-young-79-mayor-of-detroit-and-political-symbol-for-blacks-is-dead.html (April 22, 2018)

"CuriosID: How a 1900s Black Detroit Community was Razed for a Freeway." 2015. WDET. October 19. https://wdet.org/posts/2015/10/19/81771-curiosid-how-a-1900s-black-detroit-community-was-razed-for-a-freeway/ (April 22, 2018)

"Deadly Force." WXYZ-TV Detroit. Aired November 6, 2018. https://youtu.be/7HMYEgrv-ho (April 22, 2018)

Dumke, Mick. 2018."Chicago's Gang Database is Full of Errors - And Records We Have Prove It." ProPublica. April 19. https://www.propublica.org/article/politic-il-insider-chicago-gang-database (April 22, 2018)

Dumke, Mick. 2018. "Chicago's Gang Database Isn't Just About Gangs." ProPublica. April 20. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-gang-database-is-not-just-about-gangs (April 22, 2018)

"Encyclopedia of Detroit: Eight Mile Road." Detroit Historical Society. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/eight-mile-road (April 22, 2018)

"Encyclopedia of Detroit: Paradise Valley." Detroit Historical Society. https://detroithistorical.org/learn/encyclopedia-of-detroit/paradise-valley (April 22, 2018)

Gallagher, John. 2018. "Amazon to Detroit: You Didn't Have Enough Talent to Get HQ2." January 18. https://www.freep.com/story/money/business/john-gallagher/2018/01/18/detroit-amazon-headquarters-finalists/1043624001/ (April 22, 2018)

"History of Housing Discrimination Against African Americans in Detroit." National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). http://www.naacpldf.org/files/our-work/Detroit%20Housing%20Discrimination.pdf (April 22, 2018)

Konerman, Alyssa. 2017. "25,737 People Lived in Kenyon-Barr When the City Razed it To the Ground." Cincinnati Magazine. February. http://www.cincinnatimagazine.com/citywiseblog/lost-city-kenyon-barr-queensgate/#disqus_thread (April 22, 2018)

Patterson, Kai. 2016. "Remembering Black Bottom and Paradise Valley." The Mirror News (Henry Ford College). February 22. https://mirrornews.hfcc.edu/news/2016/02-22/remembering-black-bottom-and-paradise-valley#12T08 (April 22, 2018)

Swartsell, Nick. 2017. "Echoes of a Lost West End." CityBeat. November 6. https://www.citybeat.com/news/article/20981774/echoes-of-a-lost-west-end (April 22, 2018)

Sugrue, Thomas J. 2005 [1996]. The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Music:

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Stalling composed by Silent Partner

In the first of a two-part series, Jaye discusses the decline of the United States within the framework of her hometown, Detroit, Michigan. She also outlines the conditions needed for a thriving country. Is "inefficient" government truly the problem? Is America a failed state?

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Citations:

"Covering Watergate: Success and Backlash." 1974. Time. July 8. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,943934-1,00.html (April 1, 2018)

"G.I. Bill." The History Channel. https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/gi-bill (April 1, 2018)

"L. Brooks Patterson Slams Detroit: 'The Truth Hurts...Tough S***." 2014. WWJ-TV. January 21. http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2014/01/21/l-brooks-patterson-slams-detroit/ (April 1, 2018)

"U.S. Federal Individual Income Tax Rates History, 1862-2013." 2013. Tax Foundation. October 17. https://taxfoundation.org/us-federal-individual-income-tax-rates-history-1913-2013-nominal-and-inflation-adjusted-brackets/ (April 1, 2018)

Weingroff, Richard F. 1996. "Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, Creating the Interstate System." Public Roads. Federal Highway Administration. 60(1).

Music:

Raga Rage composed by Noisy Oyster provided by freesoundtrackmusic.com

Stalling composed by Silent Partner

In this public release of a Patreon bonus episode originally released in November 2018, Jaye goes back in time to tell the story of the impeachment of President Bill Clinton in 1998, and the scandals that led up to it. Clinton - and many of his supporters - believe that he was unfairly targeted by congressional Republicans for a consensual affair with a White House intern. But was that the case? And was Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky simply a "private" matter, an example of immorality unbecoming of the commander-in-chief, or perhaps something else?

Link in Bio: http://potstirrerpodcast.com/linkinbio/ Jaye Pool's Medium: http://medium.com/@marinabreeze Website: PotstirrerPodcast.com Twitter: @potstirrercast

Citations:

H. Rept. 105-830 – Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton, President of the United States. 105th Congress (1997-1998). https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/105th-congress/house-report/830/1

Isikoff, Michael, and Evan Thomas. 1998. “Clinton and the Intern.” Newsweek. February 2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/nwcover012698.htm

Leen, Jeff. 1998. “Lewinsky: Two Coasts, Two Lives, Many Images.” The Washington Post. January 24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/lewprofile.htm

Lewinsky, Monica. 2018. “Monica Lewinsky: Emerging from ‘The House of Gaslight’ in the Age of #MeToo.” Vanity Fair. March. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/monica-lewinsky-in-the-age-of-metoo

“Key Events Leading to the Impeachment Trial.” Los Angeles Times. January 31, 1999. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/jan/31/news/ss-3537 “The Clinton Impeachment, a Basic Chronology.” The City University of New York. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/johnson/clintontimeline.htm

“Was Bill Clinton’s Lewinsky Affair an ‘Abuse of Power?’” October 15, 2018. BBC. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45865402

Zelizer, Julian. 2016. “Bill Clinton’s Nearly Forgotten 1992 Sex Scandal.” CNN. April 6. https://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/opinions/zelizer-presidential-election-campaign-scandals-bill-clinton/index.html

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Desert Sky composed by Silent Partner